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PREFACE I want to take the time to send this out to our friends, family and those who will become friends in the days ahead. Many of you have become a very big part of our lives and of the ideas and the dream, which is laid out in this document. Please feel free, if you get through it, to use anything you can, forward it far and wide, give me any feedback you may have, and certainly any new ideas. It may be that if you pray about it, you may be led to take a specific part in the program laid out therein. Most all of you are already, in one way or another. I have already been severely castigated by a self-righteous “Christian” for being a cultist because of my quotation of Joseph Smith. I adamantly refuse to take out any references to Mormon history and prophecies just to, perhaps, make this message more “palatable” to milk drinking babes. “Some love to eat the meat; some love to pick the bone”-John Bunyan REFUSING TO CONSIDER IDEAS AND PRACTICES JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE THOUGHT OF, OR USED BY A PEOPLE YOU DISAGREE WITH, IS FOOLISH AND ARROGANT. That would be like refusing to live in a YURT, or a TIPI because they were used by Mongolians, or Indians. This is a plan and plea for a structured, replicating, systematic, and inter-communal effort to provide shelter and food for those relatives, friends, as well as “strangers in Israel” that I foresee to be cast upon us in the near future. People are being led to gather OUT of the CITIES. Some are becoming committed enough. A community near us has one young family with three small children who live in an uninsulated school bus, vans and tents, with a single layer 3 BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT OF

“greenhouse” for a kitchen, and shower. In their determination to try to live a debt-free life, apart from the physical and spiritual deadliness of the city, this is their “winter quarters,” as it were. They hope to build a more livable home in the spring. We moved from Denver to Topeka on 800.00, with no job lined up. I empathize with them, totally. A friend moved to Missouri from NJ in a subcompact, with no job, no housing and a pregnant wife. It is happening. “Wheresoever eagles gather, there the body is.” Listen to the Father as to where you are to be. - Jeremiyah Elliott

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SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS So much Christian, Patriot and Prophetic information tends to be truthfully informative, but also alarmist, and downright frightening. It is hard not to be. The ugly facts of the deplorable condition we have degenerated into as a nation, and as a “church” is truly sickening and terrifying. However, I once heard Bob Spears, a preparedness leader, say that in the military, an officer should never bring a problem before his commander, unless he has developed “at least two workable solutions to the problem.” There is no need for me to recount how deep the “mire” is into which we have sunk. What follows is a workable plan to achieve survivability for many who desire to obey the command to flee, literally, to use John Bunyan's phrase, “the city of destruction.” As in the introduction to the novel, Systemic Shock, by Dean Ing, I know that there is another workable, albeit less desirable solution. Things were getting bad quickly, “but Americans knew there would be a solution. There was. It found 100 million Americans. It was called sudden death.” What I envision is a way to avoid that for as many as will listen. Twelve years ago, I made up a saying, which came from my assessment of the situation as I saw it. It still is true; “A lot of people are going to die because they thought they were smart enough to think for themselves.” Recently, we watched the movie, The Druids, about Vercingetorix, the great leader in Gaul who stood up to the Romans. The people failed to heed the wisdom of his advice, and so thousands were slaughtered. My son pointed out that “it is what you have been saying, Dad. A lot of people die when they think they are smart enough to think for 5 BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT OF

themselves.” Often, we need to subject our intellect to that of another greater, or more informed mind. I deliberately did that, and ended up where I am now, after four years in Kansas, “bootcamp for Missouri,” as my wife says. This booklet will comprise a mere outline of a plan to help people to relocate from the cities, out into the country, to begin to build an attempt to live on the land. It is intended, not so much as an argument to convince believers to do so, but as a guide for those who know that we are in the last days and who know that “hard times” are soon to come SURVIVALIST VS SURVIVOR To begin with, we have the “survivalist” who is living in the city. He has his bucket of wheat, along with his book on how to live on a bucket of wheat and no electricity. He has a “good-to-go” pack, his survival pack. Now please understand, I’m not knocking those things; that is pretty much where we were at for twenty some years. We were accumulating a large number of things, with no better plan than to “head for the hills” when “the posterior excrement began to impact the rotating oscillator”. But you have that city person, versus the farmer or rancher who has grown up on the land and lived out in the country his entire life. He has a well, a septic tank or a lagoon, chickens, a garden, a milk cow, perhaps some goats and maybe a greenhouse. He runs cattle, and perhaps grows corn, as well as hay for his cattle. Now, I ask you, what is the difference between those two insofar as “surviving” goes? Which one is in a better situation, a more survivable situation? It takes many people years to understand that the “survivalist” is merely that - he is a survivalist; he is not a survivor. There were many “survivalists” leaving fingernail marks on the outside of Noah’s ark. Noah was a survivor. We 6 BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT OF

need to have an ark; we need to be survivors, living and working in a survivable area, not mere survivalists, whose last minute plan is not workable for even one out of a thousand people. WHAT IS TRUE WEALTH? Next you transition from the concept, or attitude, of “us four and no more” versus that of beginning to look at the ability to keep other people alive. These people might be friends, family, fairly new acquaintances, or they might be complete strangers. They may be refugees when it comes down to that. One truth, which we would do well to keep at the forefront of our plans is a statement by Buckminster Fuller. For anyone who does not know who Fuller was; he designed the geodesic dome and thousands of other inventions. He was a very far-sighted man, a Solomon of his generation insofar as his inventiveness went. He said this: “We now know what true wealth is. True wealth is the ability to regenerate forward life. In other words, how many people can you keep alive for how many days?” Now I would ask that question of anyone who is reading this booklet. You may “own” a half a million dollar home; you may have a five million dollar estate. But if all you have is paper money, and bricks and mortar and stone, with green grass out front and an SUV in the garage, you really have nothing. I ask you this question: do you have the ability to regenerate forward life? As a believer, unless you are willing to put the things you “own” to work for the building of the Kingdom of Heaven, of Zion, you are not wealthy. I’ve said for many years, that someday things are going to be turned upside down, topsy-turvy. When the economy crashes or 7 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

whatever happens, how many people can you keep alive for how many days? If your answer is zero, then you’re not wealthy. The sum total of everything you own will be worth nothing. There will be people who were relatively poor who will suddenly be wealthy because they will have true wealth. AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE WEALTH To put it into a different perspective; let us look at something that happened to us. We were going to be moving and while we were visiting, we went to look at land that a friend of ours was planning to buy (this is the person that we would be working with). He had a large family. They lived in the country with a garden and chickens. They lived as close to the land as they could, and they had a vineyard. They had the ability to make vinegar and wine. They had good neighbors around. They were surrounded by good people, and they were working with good people. They had a business from which they could ship product nationwide. We went to see the land, and as we were driving away, we hadn’t gone but a quarter of a mile, and my son, who was seventeen, said something very insightful to me. Now you have to understand that he and I traveled all over the country during the Y2K concern. We did expos in many major cities. We met some wonderful people; I met some very wealthy people who were literally millionaires. They had visited the Whitehouse, and were big supporters of political candidates. We have done work in million dollar homes. My son has met some very influential, great leaders, and very wealthy people. As we were pulling out of there he said, “You know, Dad, of all the people that we have met in our entire life, Kent is the wealthiest man that we know.” And this is true because he had the ability to regenerate forward life. That was true wisdom and insight on his part. 8 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

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A BIBLICAL EXAMPLE OF TRUE WEALTH Now to put it into another light- the classic example is that of the story of Joseph in the Bible. Joseph, when explaining the dream, and then being asked to put that dream into practice, stored up what? He did not stock up gold or silver, he stored up food. And what did that in turn become? He stored up the ability to keep people alive. He stored up the ability to regenerate forward life, and so when famine came, people came to him and traded their money, goods and land for food. He stored up the ability to regenerate forward life and that became wealth. But the true wealth was in the food or the ability to regenerate forward life. And in doing that, I might point out, he saved his own family; he saved the entire House of Israel. So the life of the patriarch Joseph is the most powerful illustration we have of what I am trying to get across here. MEAT ON THE HOOF AND CROPS IN THE GROUND This is where we need to be heading if we want to consider ourselves wealthy. We need to have food and it needs to be food that is growing. The best form of food preservation is meat on the hoof and crops in the ground. Another experience my son and I had, way back when we were in Denver, happened in a restaurant which “counter-culture” types often frequented; you know, you’d have radicals and patriots and all kinds of different people. This one gentleman was sitting up at the counter and we were sitting at a booth. He was talking to somebody about his investments and buying stock in DIA (Denver International Airport). I made a comment out loud to him while they were talking. Later I made another comment out loud, and so a while later, after his friend left, he came and sat down at the booth 10 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

with us and told us about how you could get a ten percent discount on Canadian gold maple leaves if you drove to Canada and bought a quarter of a million dollars at a time. And I said, “Ian, what are we waiting for, let’s go.” THE GARDEN WAS WORTH MORE THAN THE GOLD He did recognize, however, that while talking about buying massive amounts of gold coins, and knowing people who did, that gold is not true wealth when times are hard. He told us about Germany in World War II and how people would come down the country roads and see a farm with a garden, and they would come up to the door of a farm house and they would knock on the door. When the farmer would come to the door, they would offer to buy food with gold and they were sent on down the road. The man said three times “the garden was worth more than the gold” and this has stuck with me. “The garden was worth more than the gold.” We need to have food in the ground; we need to have gardens, orchards, vineyards, olive yards, bees, goats, chickens, and cattle. We need to have meat on the hoof and crops in the ground. I wrote a poem sometime back and it is entitled “Alas Babylon.” This was written about the time of Pentecost. ALAS, BABYLON In wrath remember mercy, the prophet Habakkuk pled, Their judgments are our blessings, is how that could be read. Were not 3 million people by plagues from Egypt freed? May we by Yahweh’s catastrophes from Babylon us lead. Yeah, it would be wise to heed the writing on the wall. Relocate our families before the empire’s fall. 11 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

We’ll learn to grow a garden- worth more than lifeless gold, Build our new communities and our new borders hold. Cut your losses! Burn your bridges! You’d better do it now. Don’t look back; escape the fire; put your hand upon the plow. It takes some time to settle in, be trusted, learn the ropes, We must build a house and grow some crops if we’re to live our hopes. The war we fought for freedom 200 years ago, Dragged on for 8 long dark years; hunger pangs did many know. We’ll never last the coming wrath unless our storage food aboundAnd that is meat upon the hoof and crops within the ground. It is not just for “us four- no more” from our stores we’ll have to draw. Shan’t we our brother’s keepers be, thus obeying Bible law? Would Joseph have been blessed of God with an attitude like that? See the world starve to death while only the rich grew fat? But no, in blessing all the world he reached his own family too, Thus saved all Israel from death and received the double birth right too. America is Joseph’s house, Manasseh tribe by name, And parts of all the other twelve, who gather in his name For Shiloh soon is to return whose right it is to rule. He’ll crush the nations with His law and in righteousness us school. It falls to Joseph once again to savior all the rest. Thus the entire world looks on as we begin the test. 12 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

Our test begins right now to use what we thought we owned. To build a kingdom we can’t yet see with what God to us has loaned. To lay our every resource down in sacrifice before his feet Will seem as nothing when at last the nail scarred man we meet. He will not own you then, if you do not own Him now. Obey His word, escape the world and- yes begin to plow. If with His image- our children- we’ll fill up all the world, The millennial Kingdom will have come, His glorious banner unfurled. So that poem brings out several ideas: 1) we’re headed for hard times, 2) we need to be living closer to the land, 3) whether we believe it or not, whether we like it or not, if we are living in a safe area, we will most likely see vast numbers of refugees pouring out of the cities as the social infrastructure deteriorates in this country, and 4) storage food, when we speak of storage food, needs to be utilizing the best method of food preservation that there is, and that is meat on the hoof and crops in the ground. It needs to be growing. ALMOST THE THREAT OF FAMINE Back in the 1830s, Joseph Smith made a prophecy. He said that the area of SW Missouri would be so flooded with refugees that there would almost be the threat of famine. It was not because the land was not capable of producing enough food for such a massive amount of people, but because you just can’t store enough food for the vast numbers he saw coming as refugees. Yes, there should be food storage, but the main part of your “food storage” needs to be crops or growing food. No matter 13 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

what one may believe about Joseph Smith or the Mormon Church in general, this statement has a lot of wisdom and foresight in it. And I would also point out that were it not for the Mormon movement, there would be precious little capability in this country in the way of food storage technology. So that is one part of the big picture I saw ten years ago. Had this area of food production been left to the churches of general Christendom, with their rapture or their preterism, there would be no long term food storage plants anywhere in America. So this is what we will be faced with, refugees, or homeless people. When, not if, judgment begins in this country, we’re going to see some massive amounts of changes. As they come into a part of the country that I believe will be ruled by God’s law (and this is an area we’re going to cover briefly, what area of the country to go to), things are going to change. Life is going to be very different. We can refuse to be a part of the solution, but in so doing, we will be making ourselves a part of the problem. We need to be as prepared as possible. As many people as possible need to do things ahead of time. In other words, we need to do these things now. It is virtually too late now, but a lot of good can still be done. A lot of preparation and groundwork can still be laid, and so we need to have the utmost in cooperation. We do not need to have perfect doctrine. We do not need to have the splitting of hairs and arguing and screaming and yelling about doctrinal points of view, we need to work- and work together. One of this country’s founding fathers stated, “Gentlemen, we shall either hang together or we will most assuredly hang separately.” May I suggest that an untold amount of suffering could be avoided by cooperative preparedness? 14 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

HOW SHOULD WE THEN BE LIVING? We need to get back to the land and be caretakers of the garden. Adam and Eve were given the charge to take care of the garden, to take care of the earth. In fact, the series of commands to “be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, take dominion and subdue it” is five things, and they’re not all saying the same thing. They’re not all saying be fruitful and multiply - you know, have many, many children. The “replenish the earth” part, I believe, at least in part is to take care of the earth, to take care of the garden, to be caretakers, to tend it, to replenish and renew the soil. We would be blessed much more by “replenishing the earth” instead of poisoning and toxic waste dumping and strip mining and clear cutting it, all of which are far too prevalent. I know that I may sound like a liberal; I’m not, honest, but we do need to take care of the earth. “When man sins; nature suffers” was a dictum laid down by a memorable speaker I once heard back in my college days. Consider that in the book of Revelation, many of the judgments that are going to come are earth-oriented judgments, in other words: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, pestilence, famine and drought. Now if we are living close to the earth, and growing our wealth from the ground, and raising livestock, and care-taking the earth as we are commanded to by our Creator, and replenishing the soil, replenishing the earth, might it be possible that we be spared a great measure of judgment? WHERE SHOULD WE CONSIDER LIVING?

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Certainly, I would hope that to be the case if we are in an area of refuge. It says in Isaiah 4:5 that “The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for upon all the glory shall be a defense and there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat and for the place of refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.” So I believe that there are going to be different areas of the country, perhaps eastern Washington, central Idaho, up in Michigan, Kentucky/ Tennessee and perhaps many others, but, I do believe that some of those are going to be temporary. I don’t know. It’s just conjecture on my part. I am very clear, however, that the area of the central United States is now, and will be, one of the best places in the world to be. This would be based upon The Christian Patriot Civil Defense Association, which held that from Scottsbluff, Nebraska to Lubbock, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania would be the area to gather to and how big the “SAFE AREA” ended up being would depend on how many good people gathered there before the breakdown. I also saw that in George Washington’s vision at Valley Forge, when he foresees a last day’s invasion of America by many nations, states clearly that those who survived would be driven to the center of the country. A “heavenly host” army would help them. HEAVENLY HOST IN HISTORY On December 16th, 1838, a group of 464 South African Voortrekkers, when attacked by 15,000 Zulus, were allegedly aided by a heavenly host. Similarly, the British in World War II, when the Luftwafte was coming over to bomb London for the last 16 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

time and there were no fighters left, watched the hordes of enemy planes turn around and go home. Later, when asked, German pilots said that there were hundreds and hundreds of white planes in the air and they were terrified of being annihilated and so they turned around and flew back to Germany. And so that is the scenario in George Washington’s Vision. There will be a heavenly host coming to the aid of the inhabitants, or the good people of the land that were driven to the interior. So I believe there will be areas of refuge, and certainly “the interior of the land” being one of them, if not the main one. To cover all the facts and topics relevant here, would take a couple of hundred pages. In brief, I believe that an area with Springfield, Missouri as its center will be the safest place to be in the next few years. How large that area turns out to be will depend on how many good people gather there. This is based on a multitude of reasons such as soil, growing season, wood availability for heating and building, being near like-minded folk, lack of building codes, and above all… water. TEN BOOM’S VISION. Corrie Ten Boom, author of In My Father’s House, was in a concentration camp during World War II. Years later, while on a plane flight over the Midwest, she said that she had a vision of a circular area, mostly in Missouri, with a wall of fire around it. Inside everything was green and lush. Children were playing and cattle were grazing and crops were growing. Outside there was desolation, anarchy, chaos, death, destruction, pestilence, famine and drought. She also allegedly had a vision of the area being surrounded by angels with drawn swords five ranks deep. So she moved to northern Arkansas (Eureka Springs) and lived 17 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

out her days there. The only source for this is from Charles Jennings, who has a website truthinhistory.com. Any others would be appreciated.* CIVIL WAR TWO One more comment on America is a recommendation to read Civil War Two by Tom Chittum. This book has a single theme; America has become a multi-national empire, and all such empires degenerate into civil war. In relation to the rectangular area described above, this scenario whittles the central safe area down by hundreds of miles on the southeast (NEW Mexico - and I am not talking about the state, but rather AZTLAN, and the “plan of San Diego” to kill every white male over the age of 16), and on the southeast because of the overwhelming numerical superiority of the black population and other races. In spite of attending innumerable patriot, prophecy and other meetings and watching hundreds of alarmist videos, this book was one of the most sobering and chilling, yet factual and realistic books I have ever read in my life. This includes close to a hundred science fiction and fantasy doomsday books. THE LAND OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL The most powerful and telling description of America as having a prominent place in a last days scenario comes from scripture itself, in the 38th and 39th chapters of Ezekiel. For a full analysis of this position, please read the works by F. E. Pitts, which are available online at several sites. A brief summary of his position is at http://www.childrenofyahweh.com/Comparet/new_doctrine.htm. 18 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

He has the distinction of preaching these ideas twice before the United States Congress at their invitation. In brief, let it be pointed out that not one of the descriptions of “the land of the people of Israel” is a description of Palestine, or of the people who presently occupy it, who use the name Jew and incorrectly named their country Israel. (Why not Judah?) Every single description fits America exactly. Many of them fit only America of all the nations on earth. WHERE SHOULD WE NOT CONSIDER LIVING? Many people, ”Christians” included, have been convinced that America is going down; that they must go to some other country such as Belize, Argentina, or Canada. The motivation is fear, mongered by newsletter writers such as Don MacAlvaney and others. Many are convinced to buy gold, and do. Ezekiel 7:15 and ff states that silver and gold will be thrown into the street; they will be worthless. Fear is not a bad motivator, IF GOD GIVES IT. Noah “moved with fear built an ark…” If it is fear that only wants to save ones own life, it is not good; it is selfish. The desire to own gold may not be wrong, but again, it can be only greed with a fine veneer. In light of the passage in Ezekiel, both motivators in this point in time are wrong. They are ungodly greed and ungodly fear. They will, in most cases, lead to destruction. One family I know may move to Hawaii. Now let’s see; living on a military target with a big black X on it is not my idea of intelligence. It is also the top of a huge volcano, susceptible to the ring of fire of the pacific. In addition, it is not a survivable place, being subject to major earth and water catastrophes. 19 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

One absolute fact must be considered before a major move like this, one already mentioned. Life is not going to continue as it is now. Countries are changing. War is inevitable. Do not live where invading armies are going to be. Do not be where civil war will wreak havoc. Canada once had 3 million land mines to prevent Russia from crossing the country. They are gone, thanks in part to Princess Diana’s crusade against them. Handguns are essentially illegal. Canada is a highway to America for Russia, and any part of Canada that the Russians decide is a nice place to occupy and farm, will be “pacified.” Pacify, in military jargon, means to “terminate with extreme prejudice” all living opposition, something the spetsnatz as well as the regular army, are experts at. Before going, I suggest one learn Russian now; it is not too hard to pick up. Further, if one looks at a map of the great lakes region and northward, it will not take a rocket scientist to figure out that what land is there is an enormous mass of nearly submerged islands. I posit that in the near future with chunks of Antarctica the size of Rhode Island falling off, and Greenland melting away, that nearly all of the area which looks like it is an ocean with lots of islands will be an ocean with no islands. It is entirely conceivable that from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico could become a several hundred mile wide waterway. The point is that coastal areas, whether due to a gradual rise of the ocean level, or a catastrophic event on the low side like Katrina, and on the high side a LUCIFER’S HAMMER Extinction Level Event, would not seem to be safe areas to plan on surviving in. 20 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

EAGLE WINGS: SOME BACKGROUND So this plan that the Lord gave me is a very far-reaching plan and all we’re going to get down here is a beginning, an outline I guess, and I need to get into that. In order to do that I just wanted to touch on the passage in Revelation chapter 12. It speaks of the woman who is given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness. The dragon was wroth that she had escaped, and so he spewed out a flood of water and the earth helped the woman and opened up and swallowed the flood. And so that was something that for several years, actually when we moved out from Denver in ’97, my prayer was to go into the wilderness. That didn’t really happen. We ended up in a small town of 200, which compared to Denver and the front range population base of 2 million people is certainly wilderness, but we knew fairly soon that it was not where we wanted to be and that we would be moving. So coming into ’97 I felt that this would be a time to move. A cycle of 4 years in Denver of teaching and educating and waking people up and then we moved, and we’ve been here 4 years, teaching and educating and helping people and holding meetings and training and providing people with stuff and I felt it was time to move, and the case is turning out that it is, and that it is happening very suddenly, 11th hour. So my prayer was to go out into the wilderness, that’s where my heart is to be- out into the woods, in the wilderness and to live close to the earth. The Lord put that desire there. For many of us it’s in our blood, if you would rather live out in the country than in the city, it’s in your blood. It’s a Celtic or ancestral thing with the Israelite people.

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COUNTRY VS. CITY We need to be out in the country where we can be survivors, and not in the cities where we are merely survivalists. In the cities, many people who consider themselves survivalists may have tons and tons of goods. I believe a lot of them will have to leave those supplies behind, and they will be scavenged, or salvaged or stolen by other people. But a lot of those people eventually and I’m looking at a 3 year time period here- that at the end of that time period people will be on foot, with the shirt on their back and that’s all. It’s sad but true and it’s always happened. We’ll just be seeing history repeat itself. Think about the history cycle of Beirut. When you think about it, it’s a bombed out city, a war torn city and has been for many years. Was it always that way? Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East. Sarajevo, site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, was once a beautiful city. Now it’s a bombed out and war torn town, also. It used to be called the Beirut of the Balkans because it was so picturesque. Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. Both cities are now full of craters, shelled buildings and human misery. There has been incredible destruction of medical and educational facilities and historical monuments. The point here is that throughout man’s history, war comes, civilization breaks down, and people are refugees. They are pushing carts, they are pulling wagons, with bird cages hanging off the side of the cart. You know they are taking whatever they perceive of value and they are going out into the country to try to find sustenance, to try to find food. There is no food in the cities, none. THE TRIGGER EFFECT 22 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

When war hits bad things happen. When food supplies are interrupted in this country, people will very, very quickly become violent. There is a movie called The Trigger Effect. The question in the movie was how soon after the power goes out in a city will people become violent. How long will it be before they begin preying on one another through theft, and burglary, even to the point of committing murder? The conclusion of the movie is: not very long. There is going to be a breakdown in this country. It may be precipitated by an economic collapse. It may be any number of catalysts - drought, disease, invasion, or internal strife. Most likely it will involve a combination of many factors. We are seeing several at work already. We have the threat of “terrorism” doing incredible damage to the airlines, as well as the economy in general. What is happening is the judgment of God. It would be well to prepare ourselves ahead of time. WHAT KIND OF HOME SHOULD WE LIVE IN? So the idea that the woman fled into the wilderness and the dragon poured out a flood and the earth absorbed or swallowed that flood, so what I’m leading up to here is a concept, a way of life, a building of homes that will “swallow” the cold, and “swallow” or absorb the heat and swallow or absorb radiation. Well, what is your best defense against radiation? The answer is “three feet of dirt.” Gary North wrote a book, With Enough Shovels, which gives this answer. So if we were to live in earth sheltered, or underground homes, we would be able to live more comfortably year round, zero dollars paid out for cooling in the summer and virtually no money 23 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

paid out in the winter for heating. We have lived in a COB HOUSE as well as an EARTH SHELTERED HOME. In both, we did not fire up our wood stove until months after other people had their furnaces on. When we did, the wood provided free heat. Thus we’ve been dealing with designing simple, free, cheap easy ways to build these homes and the heating systems. So this is the area where the plan begins and revolves around: mortgagefree housing. Eliminate completely the “death- pledge”, or mortgage. Eliminate completely any expense in the area of cooling. Virtually eliminate heating costs. So I’m going to go into that at this point. TIMING IS EVERYTHING One Statement That I have kept in mind for about 30 years is that “It is better to be a year too early than a day too late.” The core of the idea of the plan, which I’ll call Eagle Wings (because there are believers in the cities and they need two wings of a great eagle to help them get out into the country), began with a short dream, or vision. I want to say that I am by putting this on tape and then putting this in print and putting it out on the Internet - encouraging people to take part in it and to be a part of it. By doing this we are speaking this plan into existence. It’s going to happen, it has to happen, it will happen, to what extent it’s going to happen I can’t say. I feel driven and pushed to get this done as soon as possible because we do not have any minutes, hours, weeks, months and definitely not years to spare. At the very, very, very outside I believe we’ve got three years to see all this come to pass and then the door is going to be shut. A friend of mine was given a poem back in 24 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

early December of 1998 and it says in part and I’ve rewritten and taken on a little bit of poetic liberty here: 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 it's just begun they break the golden rule we are not free God shuts the door Whose left alive pick up the sticks God’s glorious heaven

I think that’s about as accurate a time sequence as I can imagine, so 2004 God shuts the door, my sense is we better plan on being done by 2003. Even at that time, going into that time period people are going to be refugees. I have had, call it a vision, just a sight, a picture burned into my mind for twenty years of a tent city. So it was put onto my heart. Back then I thought well, I’m crazy, but I was driven to buy tents, and sleeping bags and blankets, sweaters, boots and gear to provide for those people that I saw in that vision. So here twenty years later we are going out into a community, out in the wilderness and at some point of time I do believe that we’re going to have that tent city. It’s going to happen. There will be many, many refugees. MY DREAM / VISION This is how this plan began for me. I had visited my wife down in Missouri, she was down there waiting for a friend to have a baby, and I visited her. Early in the morning, I was sitting up in bed 25 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

about 3 am. I was awake, I wasn’t sleeping so it wasn’t a dream but, I had this picture in my mind, but a moving one, it wasn’t a still thing. I’m facing toward this home; it’s an earth bermed home. All I could see was the front of it, the rest of it was just hill or into the earth. A young family comes walking toward the woods toward me, to the right of the home; I’m facing the front of the home so they are coming up on my left. They come around and they don’t see anything or me, and I’m watching. They curl around and see the home and the door’s there, and it’s a wooden door with a welcome mat out front and, it’s their home. There is bedding in there, a stove with wood in it ready to light up. A few utensils in the kitchen and some food, and it just broke me up, I cried. My wife kept asking what’s wrong, she thought something was physically wrong and for a long time it just tore me up inside; I could not talk to see that something that beautiful could happen, that this young refugee family, on foot is coming into this area with no food, two small children, nowhere to go, they’re homeless, and for a home to be waiting for them, and it just spoke volumes to me about the capability that we do have to see that happen for a large number of people. DRIVE NOW OR WALK LATER And so I believe that is going to happen. I never really said that before but I believe that is going to happen. So that began a three-day marathon. I wouldn’t say I intended to do it, but just a marathon of thoughts and a structuring of a plan or idea flowed through my head, a massive plan to see that be able to happen. What I “saw” was at the tail end of the three years. These were people on foot - not people selling their homes in the city because they had foresight enough, sense enough, guts enough, desire enough, and determination enough to sell their home in the city while it was worth anything at all and use that money for 26 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

the building of the Kingdom of God. This was a couple that didn’t have the drive, the money or whatever it took to relocate sooner. Instead of having all their life’s accumulated wealth, and pulling a loaded trailer, they are on foot, with the clothes on their back, small children in hand. But for whatever reason, this is going to happen, there will be refugees they may be true believers, and so, nonetheless they are refugees, for whatever reason.

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IN MY FATHERS HOUSE… To see them have a home, however, is possible. It is possible. It’s possible that 3 million people could come out of “Babylon” the system and the cities in the next few years. We can see it happen, we can make it happen and be part of it happening. It’s an awesome idea and I believe that we are speaking this into existence. We’re speaking that dream into existence and this concept, this plan into existence. Put it out on the Internet, email it to everyone, and develop websites for it, and link up with other websites that are community oriented. Get the idea out there. Plant it; spread it; broadcast it. TITHING LAND/CARING FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS This is the core of the idea. Let’s say you live in what would be the safe area, mostly southwestern Missouri, southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma, northwest Arkansas or some other area of the country and you owned 200 acres. What would be wrong with tithing 10 percent of that land to the Lord for the building of homes for the poor, refugees, widows, and orphans? We are commanded to take care of those people. It’s in the law both in the Old Testament, as well as the New. Ten acres is enough as a rule of thumb for a family to subsist on. They can graze a milk cow and raise a garden and have wood to cut for a fire and to build a home with. Two families could subsist on the 200 acres that is owned by the landowner without really encroaching upon the landowner. In fact if you looked at them as poor but good people, and they didn’t make it out in time and they didn’t sell their house like you did twenty years ago and established yourself on the land and bought 200 acres. Well let’s say that you build homes and they’re there and two families show up and 28 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

need homes and they are willing to work. You now have two families of “employees.” In Biblical terms they are servants or slaves; that’s Old Testament. This is a part of the plan. People that already own land tithe 10 percent and set it aside. Now are you going to build those homes at your own expense, no you don’t need to. I hope to see increased numbers of construction companies building these homes. For the setting aside of that land, which in most parts of Missouri and these areas, 10 acres would be worth about ten thousand dollars. They would still own it and be caretakers of it. They’re going to obey the law by taking care of the poor, the widows, and the needy. You may have a widow that has a business, a very good business. Maybe for the exchange for that land we build a house or a garage or an office building near your main house, that’s 8 thousand dollars for the house. Build it for 8 thousand dollars in trade for the 10 acres that would be set-aside basically for the Lord. Then build a house on that property for a family to come in and live there. EMPLOYEES/ SERVANTS When that is done and that property is set-aside for the Lord and that family comes in who is poor or needy, refugee or a widow or an orphan under the care of a Ward or someone. You now have more “employees.” You’ve added a significant margin to the survivability factor of your small community, your family community on your 200 acres. So that’s the gist of the plan. That can expand to a farmer who has 1,000 acres and if he would be willing to set aside some of that acreage, 10 percent. There could be a small community there around him. They could help him farm the place. It’s an idea that can happen. CLAIMING LAND BY BUILDING ALTARS 29 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

Another thing that Israel always did was to build altars when claiming land. To walk the land everywhere on which you tread with the sole of your foot I shall give unto you. When Joshua crossed the Jordan they had one man from each tribe pick up twelve stones from the middle of the river and they built an altar. Joshua built an altar. So, one way to claim land is to build altars. Well, my family, thinking that we still wanted to rent a certain house and a certain property, built an altar there. The very next time I spoke with the landowner to tell her at that point in time that we were not interested in the house, even though it’s a beautiful house. It’s a mansion and probably worth half a million dollars. It’s on 160 acres. It was $350 per month rent with a huge steel barn, a pond, a fenced pasture for cattle, a huge garden area, pecan trees, apple trees, and all that. It was phenomenal for $350 per month. And I called her to tell her that nope, we don’t want that property because we realized we have to live in a home that when we’re done building, it won’t cost anything. It’s paid for and it won’t cost us anything to heat or cool, which this big house would. I told her we wanted to build an earth-sheltered house. I said all that I need was land to build it on. She said, “Well I have 160 acres; you can build a house on my land.” She’d have to check with her husband and her son. So here is a beautiful example. We built an altar and prayed and claimed the land and the very next time I talked to that landowner that land was offered to me for the building of a home and I explained my idea, the plan to her, the Eagle’s wing plan. I felt it was a confirmation of two of the ideas - of building altars, and of building/ owning a home which is paid for free and clear, with no interest or loan payments to a bank. HANGING TOGETHER OR HANGING SEPARATELY 30 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

The core idea of what we’re dealing with here is a program to build homes and it’s going to take a lot, it may very well demand working together with people that you might not be on the same page with in all areas. You may be on the same page in a lot of ways, which we are and yet doctrinally there may be differences here and there. It’s going to take a lot of cooperation in a lot of areas and that’s what we need to get into here. WHERE TO GATHER In regard to this, what kind of area are we looking at? What area of the country, what area of the state should be considered? I’d say that we’re looking at an area where land is not real expensive. You’re not near large population centers, which drive the price of land up to anywhere from $2,000 an acre and up. In Denver, actually up in Fort Collins a friend of ours said to buy just a lot for a module or mobile home is $70-80,000 that’s mind boggling, it’s insane. For $70-80,00 out here in Missouri/Arkansas, at $1,000 an acre you can get 70 acres and build your own home, have a garden, goats, chickens, ducks, geese or lamas, whatever you want to raise. So what area of the country? An area perhaps where there’s good wood for building and firewood. We need an area where the soil is good. It must be an area of the country where wind patterns are not going to dump a lot of radioactive material on you. A place where there are no building codes would be advisable to reduce the cost of home building. I think that is critical. If we’re going to build earth-sheltered homes we can’t be, in we’re going to build a lot of homes inexpensively, it’s going to have to be in an area of the country where you’re not fighting building inspectors and that driving the cost of the construction up and you have to contract with a particular type of contractor, a state licenses contractor. We’ve got to be in an area where we can go out and build a 31 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

home and live in it and not have anybody on our backs or looking over our shoulders or photographing our structure and taxing us for it. That is a critical area there. There needs to be water, surface water, well water, and ponds. Wildlife would be nice, not necessary. ALL THINGS IN COMMON So that’s where we’re heading at, that’s it on the introduction. Specifically we’re going to deal with the plan, the idea of the Eagle’s Wings program. Initially I’m done with the introduction overall but just a real quick background of the evolution or the development of this, the things that laid the ground work for it. The plan itself all kind of came together within 3 days but, in the book of Acts you had people sharing, holding all things in common and when they had a need, the need was met. It began with people selling land and laying the money at the apostle’s feet. They were selling land that was out in the country so that they could minister within the cities. I believe it’s the opposite now. That was the beginning of the church era and now at the end of the church era I believe that we need to sell the properties in the cities, it’s too late to minister, the salt needs to be preserved. The carcass is dead; it’s rotting. And the church needs to get out of the cities and go out into the country so that the salt can be preserved for a time when it is needed. That’s basically the book of Acts what I see applying to today and I saw that back in 1993 when we first began waking up and realizing who we were and learning about Israel identity. Another guy, a Christian, Don Paul writes a series of books (he was a green beret) called Everybody’s Knife Bible, Great Living in Grubby Times and a general book on preparedness. They are really good books, very well written and very concise with brand new information for a lot of people. He advocated the concept of 32 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

working together. He said if you have five families or five members, that by pooling their resources they could have five times the amount of things available to them. Instead of every single person buying a chainsaw, you might be able to use one or two. Let’s say you felt like you needed to have a drill press. Well one drill press could serve for everybody. So you expand your capabilities and resources. By pooling resources you multiply them. So I proposed this back then and the reaction was “No, well I bought mine and it’s my stuff and I’m not going to share it.” We’ve probably at that time had 10, 50, 100 times more stuff then other people and they still refused and so OK, fine and well and good.

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MORMON TREK ON FOOT A friend of ours, one of my wife’s friends in Colorado is a Mormon and she told me one time how she went to a reenactment of the trek west and she said that some of the poorer Mormons used carts; they didn’t use wagons, so they didn’t have so much money tied up in moving. They walked. They had handcarts that they pushed or pulled I’m not sure which, but they put their belongings on the cart and they walked. A collection would be taken up, a family would be supplied with utensil tools, money, etc and they would go out to Utah and when they would get established and when they were making money they would send money back to bring another family out so it was a continuous immigration. That is an interesting concept. It is a workable concept. It is kind of part of this idea that you have continuous exodus, immigration into Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Idaho, Michigan or wherever but, it’s a continuous exodus out of the cities over the next three years. So I proposed the idea of sharing again to a home church group that we had here and everybody pretty much was like “It doesn’t work, it can’t happen, it won’t happen, it’s communism.” I said, “Look, it did work, it worked in the book of Acts. If no other time in history, it did work in the book of Acts.” AMISH LAND PURCHASE Then you have the idea of the Amish. I just heard this last week, and it is a fabulous idea. A certain man is given a full time job of going around and raising money. His goal he is supposed to raise is $30,000 per month. And some of that is gathered from tithes and some of the business owners maybe contribute more and wealthy people contribute more. Then that man’s job is to 34 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

take that $30,000 and buy farms. Well, $30,000 will buy 30-40 acres in this area. So every month this man is responsible for purchasing 30 acres a month let’s say. This man said some people describe the Amish as being the last intact or separated Israelite tribe. Whether that’s true or not I don’t know and I don’t have any speculation as to which tribe that would be, but very intelligent, very wise. Why can’t we put that principle into practice? If everybody in the cities would tithe to an organization or a committee or a treasurer or caretaker and we would go around and purchase land, this would be a store house, basically a bishop store house, that’s exactly what the Mormon’s call it. Put money into that storehouse for a return to the land and this can be accomplished. There are people sitting on massive amounts of money, people that have money in 401Ks and CDs and money markets and stocks and their IRAs and life insurance and things that are in essence worthless, or will be worthless. Many years ago when we came out here to Kansas we cashed in a life insurance policy and used the money for what we felt was the Lord’s work. BUILDING A SELF-SUSTAINING CIVILIZATION James Stivers, an author, in the book The Holy Conspiracy speaks of the fact that the south was a self-sustaining civilization, that it was a Celtic (Scottish Irish) society. It was butting heads with the Roman Imperial one-world mentality. And now at this point in time, this is the 6th time in history when the Celtic mindset is warring against the Roman-Imperial one world mentality. Charles Jennings, another author, made the statement that in the south, when a boy came of age he was given a working plantation. And so that, and what I had just read from James 35 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

Stivers really clicked and said that’s possible, we can do that, there’s no reason why we can’t. We can gather construction materials and we can have homes built for young men and families as they come of age and so they can start having children right away without waiting and without paying off any mortgage; the house will be paid for before he ever gets married. This is how the whole idea of the possibility of it evolved. We’ve already been thinking about alternative homes, for many years we’ve loved cordwood. We’ve now figured out that you can use cob, which is a mixture of clay, sand and straw as mortar for the cordwood. That reduces the expense even more. You’re not paying for cement and whatnot. One major factor in building a community or a civilization that will be self-sustaining is to have all of the areas of food production, manufacturing and raw materials in operation “locally.” One man, when speaking of Missouri as a good place to live, said that it could be a nation in itself, because there is everything in state to be survivable. I have heard that there are more cattle grown in Missouri, than any state, including Texas. A community must be able to grow, build or produce everything it needs, or be able to have enough valuable products to trade or sell to get those things it does not have.

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BUILD AND LIVE IN DEBT- FREE HOMES Around Passover, I had prayed, I was at work and all day long just from my heart I was praying “Lord, deliver me from the hand of the oppressor, deliver me from the hand of the Midianite.” At 2:45 the boss came around and said we are having a meeting up in the break room and about 20 of us were laid off due to lack of work. I just went, “Praise God, that was a very quick answer to prayer; I’ve been delivered. I now have no job but I was delivered.” Well, 6 months later at Tabernacles I got my answer and that was to live in a home that is completely paid for. No mortgage, no rent to a landlord, virtually no expenses for heating and cooling. You must understand that this is a major revelation that most people never figure out. The average family spends over a thousand dollars a month on something they do not own and may succeed in paying off just before they die. Then estate taxes steal a lifetime of hard work from the scriptural rightful heirs- the family of the deceased. Why so you think it is called a mortgage? The word is from the French, and means deathdebt!!! You statistically will not pay it off before you die!!! By building your own home, you have, in reality, made yourself a millionaire, by putting the half million to one million dollars you would have spent on housing you will never own, into your own pocket. AN EARTH-BERMED HOME IS SIX TIMES CHEAPER If you build an earth-bermed home in the summer you have a 60degree temperature. If it’s 110 degrees outside, it’s 60 degrees inside, and that’s very livable. You don’t spend any money on air-conditioning whatsoever. Grow some trees out front, some 37 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

vines and buy some solar screen netting and shield off the south side and you’ve got yourself a very comfortable home. In the wintertime, with a proper stove with thermal mass, it’s going to cost virtually nothing to heat it. Because you’re going from sixty degrees to seventy-two degrees, you’re heating twelve degrees. If it’s zero degrees outside everybody else is heating how much? Seventy-two degrees. If you have an earth-bermed home, you’re only heating twelve degrees, so that’s a factor of six times. 6 x 12 = 72. So everybody else is going to be heating six times more. They’re going to be paying six times more than you are. They’re going to be working six times longer than you are. They’re going to be using six times as much fuel for their chainsaw. Six times as much gas in a truck. So this is insanity, NOT TO LIVE THIS WAY. INSANITY OF NOT LIVING CLOSE TO THE LAND I was speaking with a friend about the concept of being a ward and coverture and this friend of mine read from the Webster’s dictionary of 1828, which is awesome resource. In the course of the conversation she said that her husband has believed and contended for years that if we are not living on the land we are insane. Wow what a concept. It blended well with the idea of coverture or ward because one of the types of people who are kept under ward is insane people, and we’re all insane according to her husband. And that’s true if we’re not living close to the land, especially in this day and age, if we’re not intending to live on the land, live close to the earth, I believe that we’re going to be judged, we’re going to starve if nothing else. DO NOT LIVE IN THE CITY 38 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

I have not mentioned until this point, Ezekiel 7:15, which says those who live near the city or just outside the city will die by the sword. Those who live inside the city will die by pestilence and starvation or famine. Those who escaped will be as doves in the valleys of the mountains. We need to be in the valleys of the mountains. In other words, we need to be in the hills, the country. We need to be out on the land. And it also goes on to say that your silver and your gold will not deliver you. They will be thrown out in the streets and trodden underfoot. You cannot eat silver, you cannot eat gold and vice versa. You need food to subsist and pure water. CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL THRIFT STORE So what happened was, to recount a little a bit, I had this picture in my mind of this young couple or young family coming through the woods and seeing this home and this home was theirs. So that broke me up and my mind went into hyper drive or lightspeed or whatever you want to call it and for three days, virtually nonstop, ideas were going through my mind. One of the things that we already had an idea of with a man at a Church near us was a salvage storage area. This church has what they call a quarter store it’s a thrift store, everything in it is a quarter. You can go in there and find a $200 suit, a $500 suit a quarter for each article of clothing. So I came up with the idea of a salvage thrift storage yard. When you go into construction sites, there are tons and tons of construction material that’s thrown away, let’s stock it up. So in different areas, in different counties, we’ve got within an hour or two drive let’s say you have a storage yard for salvage and it’s a bishop storehouse. All things in common if you need something you come in and get it. You might pay $1.00 maybe $10.00 for something. So you have that idea. You have people doing that; so Ok, there’s going to have to 39 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

be somebody running that yard taking care of it, supervising it. Maybe it’s on somebody’s property where they can keep an eye on it. You have people that are out doing construction, gathering these materials. The commercial dumpsters that are 20-ton capacity the big green or purple dumpsters go to construction sites and are filled with wood and a lot of good stuff in them. That stuff can be salvaged and brought to the yard. So this is a package deal where everybody can do something. A working example is all the HABITAT FOR HUMANITY stores around. “I WILL WORK FOR HOUSING” There’s a job for virtually everybody. And here’s the deal. As people participate they can have a home built for them. In other words we can run an ad in the big papers in the areas where we want to do this “You may qualify for a free home.” People respond and say “how can I qualify for a free home?” Well, help us out. You can tithe to this ministry, this organization; send money. Let’s set the value of one of these homes at $10,000, since that should cover the value of 10 acres. So we can trade a home for a garage or a barn, or an office. What about youth groups? Let’s say they want a retreat center. Let’s say they have land where those can be built on so we set aside some homes on the property. Let’s say the church has 500 acres; we set aside 50 acres as home sites, which is enough for 5 homes. Then we build a retreat center there. A family that has property for trade for the land, we’ll build them another home there and they could run a bed and breakfast or let’s say they have in-laws come quite often they could have a separate home for the inlaws, so the in-laws wouldn’t be encroaching on their personal territory or personal space. There are endless possibilities. Youth camps, seminars why not build a home for and have a home paid for your children. This is great motivation. Let’s say 40 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

a young man is 15 years old. So he has 5 years to have a home built for him. I think $10,000 to $12,000 is a reasonable amount so that if someone has land or he or she has the money. One gentleman I know is an air traffic controller so he has money to pay for a home perhaps. Someone who works a good job and they don’t have the time or ability to build a home, maybe they're a little bit older or don’t have the manpower. So a small construction company could go around and oversee the building of homes at a retail value of $12,000. Now every 10th home they build they tithe a home to the system, the Eagle’s Wings program where that home is set-aside for people to come home to the area to live in. So there are a lot of applications there. So what are the different positions that need to be filled? Obviously a system would need to be set up to take care of money. Maybe a treasurer or a board, somebody who is trustworthy is needed. In the New Testament book of Acts, people sold land and what did they do with the money? They laid it at the apostle’s feet. The apostles were trustworthy men. So the bishop’s storehouse concept is that these are trustworthy men, the money can be brought in and “deposited” and somebody needs to keep track of that so you need a treasurer, an accountant. At this point, I would like to touch on the Amish practice of the fundraising person. Why not have someone who would go around and collect money for the program? We desperately need at this late hour, motivational speakers. We need a lot of these people. We need speakers who will tell the truth about the future and who will pleadingly convince people to get out of the cities, out of Babylon. We need apostolic speakers who will convince people to invest in the kingdom of God instead of a 401k or a New Cadillac or a bigger condo or mansion. They need to speak in the big cities as well as going to different communities. Webmasters, web designers, people that could put up a website for this is one thing I want to get done; put it on the Internet. There are websites already in existence that have to do with 41 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

communities. They list quite a few. There’s one website in particular that’s kind of nuclear oriented, survival oriented. The man that does the website built the largest survival shelter in the world. They concrete reinforced scooped out earth movers, scooped out enough dirt to then bury it in concrete rein versed a roof over I think it was 40 school buses so that turned into a very large bomb shelter. So he lists quite a few retreats or communities in Missouri, northeastern Oklahoma etc. So there’s the aspect of a fundraiser, webmasters, accountant/treasurer, salvage gatherer, salvage storage area caretakers or overseers. Small construction companies are needed that can go around and build the homes. The list goes on and on. We need people to haul materials, equipment operators, salvage people, salvage operators, management, and promotions. We must have people that advertise, and get the idea out there. We need to go to churches and speak; we need sales representatives; it needs to be sold. It’s an idea that people need to hear. It’s like you need to hear preaching; you need to have it spoken to you from the Lord. TYPES OF ACCEPTABLE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES We know for a fact through our business that there are thousands and thousands of people that want to get out of the cities and just don’t know how to do it. There’s a lot, carpenters obviously, metal workers, just any number of things that can go on and on and on. The types of buildings that could be built would be like I mentioned before even tornado shelters, somebody may want an office built, a barn, a garage, a workshop, a classroom for a school or a church. Even a home schooling family might want a separate office built so there’s allot of different ways to go with that. At this point we need to 42 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

talk about the type of structures that I would see being necessary. COB CORDWOOD UNDERGROUND EARTHBAG EARTHSHIP CEB ETC What we’re looking at is a combination of several earth sheltered, earth friendly designs. Cob is a mixture of sand, clay and straw. The word means “round mass.” You are making a giant mud-daub house. Typically they seem to have standardized on 18-inch thick walls. With cordwood, you take pieces of firewood, basically 18 inches long You see the sawed piece of wood on the inside and outside There's usually 5 inches of mortar at the outside and 5 at the inside and the interior filled in with sawdust and lime. You can use the cob mixture as the mortar. Then you’re not paying for cement, as I mentioned earlier. You have an 18-inch wall; it would go up a lot faster. Cob takes time to dry; if you can imagine 18 inches of mud basically it takes an incredibly long time to dry, In other words you put up a course of say 6 to 8 inches of cob, it may be a week before that’s dry. Cordwood you can keep going around and around the building and you can continue to work. It dries a lot quicker. In fact they put soaking wet sawdust in their mortar to keep it from drying out too fast and cracking. I see a combination of that.

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“THE EARTH IS MY INSURANCE; MY HOME IS COVERED BY IT” There is another type of earth sheltered home. Mike Oehler wrote a book The $50 and Up Underground Home. In 1971, he built himself an underground that he says cost him $50 in materials. Later on he did a $500 “palatial” addition, and he’s still living in this home 30 years later. So he fairly well brainstormed it, as has Rob Roy with the cordwood and Yanto Evans and Linda Smiley with the cob. There’s different people that have done Cob and different people that have done cordwood, but they’ve been perfected. They know how to do the roofs; they do earth sheltered roofs. Rob Roy tends to do with the cordwood 12 inches of dirt on the roof because he’s looking at it as just thermal insulation, whereas Mike Oehler is looking at it as nuclear radiation insulation so Oehler tends to go for three to four feet of dirt. So looking at a combination would be an actual idea for a home. Mike Oehler uses what is called Post Shoring Polyethylene (PSP). So if you can picture earth sheltered homes where basically the front of it is accessible to the south and that’s kind of what we’re looking at. Fifty to ninety percent being earth sheltered depending on the conditions and the time, terrain and everything else. But what we’re looking for is a great deal of the house to be earth sheltered. So how do you do that? Well in a recent issue of Backwoods Home there was an article about “earth sheltered homes” and these earth-sheltered homes that were featured were done by Davis Caves it’s a company that does underground homes. They’re doing concrete, steelreinforced concrete. Mike Oehler calls these people concrete terrorists. He says you end up with steel reinforced concrete so you end up living in a faraday cage. There are radiations, frequencies throughout the universe that the human body was created to absorb. He says created or evolved, but the human body is meant to absorb those and so when you’re living in a 44 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

metal building you’re prevented from that. And that’s not that big of a deal, it may be, it may not be I don’t know but it’s an interesting thought. A faraday box is something that was discovered and built for a very specific reason - to prevent frequencies from penetrating. The big difference is the Davis Caves homes cost 20 percent more than a conventional home. This is very expensive. Mike Oehler’s homes on the other hand, he contends, are just as good if not better. They are far more ascetically pleasing to the psyche, to the mind and emotions because he has a lot more balance in the getting of air, view, and light into the home from different points. So let’s say we use his method. You dig a hole in the ground and put the post in. This is the corner, and also about every 6-8 feet, I think he does. So to prevent deterioration of that post you could go with very expensive lumber that is treated. You could use that lumber if you wanted. It’s treated with chemicals that may perhaps outgas, I don’t know. Oehler’s very cheap very simple solution is to take a rough-cut timber out of the forest and you char it over a fire. That’s going to prevent any bugs from getting in there. So you burn it; he tells you about a quarter of an inch of charring on that thing as you turn it in the fire. Then, you wrap it with garbage bags: one, two, three or whatever. And this has all been tested. He knows that it works. Then you put that in the ground and compact it in really good. Then you’ve got a vertical beam or post. Then from post to post you put in whatever kind of wood you’ve got. This is shoring which means a material that keeps dirt and rocks from caving in. So let’s say you want to build a wall you put in shoring. This could be pallet slats or 4x8 sheets of plywood. It could be whatever material you have at hand there, that is cheapest and easiest to go with. It could even be the mill end or rough cut from a sawmill. So you have your shoring in. Then you’re going to put in polyethylene for waterproofing. That polyethylene does not have to be UV grade so it can be fairly inexpensive. In other words UV grade meaning 45 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

greenhouse polyethylene, which it is never going to see the sunlight so it’s not going to get deteriorated by the sunlight. So just use regular black polyethylene. He’ll usually put cardboard in there to protect the plastic as you put the dirt against it. And that can be upgraded. You could use 2 layers of polyethylene. The next thing would be a PSP or a Post Shoring Polyethylene wall. Let’s say around 60percent if it’s a 20-foot wide, 30-foot long you’ve got then a 600 square foot building. With 100 linear feet of circumference to deal with so you’re rear 60 percent is post shoring polyethylene and it’s earth sheltered. He has all kinds of other things that can be applied there. Then the front part that would be exposed would be a combination of the cordwood and using cob as mortar so again these are materials that are indigenous. They’re handy, there and ready to go. No expense virtually. As far as the roof, goes, the roof would be earthen. These technologies have been used for 30 some years and again polyethylene can be used. It does not have to be UV grade. Use straw or cardboard as a buffer when you go from one material to the next, to protect the poly from your planks. If you have tar paper available then you tarpaper, use some sand, the polyethylene, some straw, four inches of dirt, another layer of polyethylene, and then 12 inches or 3 feet of dirt. Then, seed it and plant it and you can have a garden up there. So that gives you good thermal mass and protection from heat and cold as well as radiation. Like I said, Mike Oehler likes the three to four feet of dirt.

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DIRT CHEAP PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING IDEAS Let’s touch on some different ideas for inexpensive ways to build. Stoves can be home made. The cob people bake outside in a cob oven. It’s a blob, kind of a teardrop shaped. They fancy them up and put animal designs in them but basically it’s a thermal mass. You build a fire in it and heat it up. It’s got a slate bottom, a steal bottom on the inside. When it’s heated up you rake or scrape all the coals out of there and then bake in there just from the radiant mass. So that gave me the idea, why not build an oven/stove right into the wall so there is a possibility. Again almost zero cost. And then why not put a heat exchanger system into it? Run a system of pipes whether it is 6-inch gas pipe or just whatever piping you have lying around. Put those in place first and then build the cob around that with your stove in the middle of it. So you now have a stove, an oven, a thermal mass as well as a heat exchanger unit blowing hot air out. You could build it so that it sucks in air from the outside of the building and or sucks air in from the inside of the building at the bottom of the cob oven. You could even build in a water heat exchanging system so you heat water up. Copper piping can be wrapped around the stove itself or around the flue pipe. So there is a lot of different ways to go there as far as inexpensive heating systems, so again it doesn’t have to cost hardly anything. Windows for these inexpensive homes can be done also. Years ago, I worked with a company called Prime Energy and we did storm window systems. We made acrylic storm windows using Velcro as a fastening system. But we also used a 16 mil vinyl. It’s crystal clear. If you stretch it tight, you virtually can’t tell that it’s not glass. This has been 17 years ago that I was doing that and we’re still using some of those as storm windows so this stuff is really good. It comes on a roll. You could do a double 47 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

pane window with a 1x4 or a 1x3 frame of wood. Stretch two of these sheets of 16 mil vinyl over that and staple it in. Tape on some foam taping with weather stripping taping so it will fit tightly into the frame and the frame could be built exactly to accommodate that. Again, this is an inexpensive way to have a very thermally efficient system. Actually, it would be more thermally efficient than glass because glass conducts heat and cold. Plastic does not. So you would have a dead air space here, not a vacuum space but a dead air space. So these can be comfortable homes.

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LIGHT AIR AND VIEW Mike Oehler stresses light, air and view. You want to have light so you can see. You don’t want to just have light from the front of the house so that at the back of the house there’s a totally different environment. It’s gloomy and that will wear on you psychologically, mentally and emotionally. You may not even notice, it but it will. He wants you to have light, air and view in all rooms. You can have some screen material; otherwise you’re going to have some bugs. Screening comes on rolls also. USING VEGETATION TO PROVIDE COOL FRESH AIR Real quickly, he builds what he calls an uphill patio. This is a terrace system built into the uphill side of the hill so that you have light, air and view coming from the backside of the house as well as a backdoor. He doesn’t believe in having only one door to the house or one entryway, one direction. But, you can have light, air and a view. So with these screens and windows you can have a very beautiful, pretty view that is psychologically pleasing with greenery growing. Another very interesting factor would be during the summertime. With it being an earth bermed home, you’re going to have a 60-degree start up temperature. If you have greenery growing out of the front door on the down hill side, and greenery growing on the up hill side, but primarily on the downhill side if there is any kind of vegetation out there and you have the screen door open or an opening at the bottom of the screen door, heat rises and so with the least amount of cool and fresh air coming through the greenery the heat in the house will tend to rise and go out the higher point of the house which would be the loft or the back assuming that this is built into a hillside. At the back, top, or wherever, you’ll have a screened 49 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

window that you can open. The heat will rise and go out that window and suck in cooler air from the bottom. 60 degrees is certainly livable and comfortable. ADDED HEATING IN WINTER/COOLING IN SUMMER Another system can be done very easily, and I’ll go into two different facets of it here. On the south facing side, very inexpensively again, posts can be put into the ground and there doesn’t need to be but two of them. You could have framework built out of either PVC or bamboo or saplings but, basically a porch area so that in the wintertime you have UV grade polyethylene - greenhouse plastic over this. What is this going to do? It’s going to extend your growing season either end of your growing season. You can start saplings, tomato plants, and seedlings. You’re going to get about a 2-month jump before the normal growing season. Mike Oehler, in northern Idaho takes some plants year round in underground greenhouses that he built. Well into December, he’ll be growing plants and your tough plants like broccoli and kale can go through the winter. So certainly this is a feasible idea. Again, this is very inexpensive; the greenhouse plastic for one home might be $50. In the summertime, maybe you don’t want to have a greenhouse since it’s not necessary. You can take that roll it up, store it and put on UV screen netting to keep the bugs out and provide shade to cool your house. You can get on a roll of solar screen that will shield up to 90 percent of the heat and sunlight. So in the summertime put that up and again you’ve reduced the temperature beating on the house by quite a bit and so the framework that you used for the greenhouse in the winter can be used for your shading system in the summertime or vines could 50 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

be grown over it. If there are trees in the south they’re going to protect you, since they will have leaves in the summer, which will protect you from heat and in the winter the leaves will fall off and you’ll have your solar pick up on your panel on the greenhouse plastic. PORTABLE HOME BUILDING PLANT So then I had the idea that OK, you’re foam tape comes on a roll and the screen comes on the roll and your solar plastic comes on a roll and your normal polyethylene comes on a roll, so, hey, we’re on a roll here. Why not have something like a goose necked trailer that all this stuff could be stocked in as well as prefab parts, the stove or just the door. For a cob oven all you would need really would be a plate of steel or even slate rock for the base and all you would need is a door for it and the other accessories like a damper and stove pipe and whatnot. But, a lot of the things, a stovepipe comes nested inside. You can get like 12 pieces and it takes up the same amount of space as one piece. Windows could be prefabricated and maybe just stapled together on site. A lot of these materials, being on a roll and then of course the timber, the earth, the clay and the straw would be picked up on site locally.

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As far as the doors, Rob Roy builds his own doors. He’ll build a 2x4 frame and then inside and outside cover that over with barn board or something maybe pallet boards. The interior could be filled with foam or something to insulate. Maybe put a window in it if you want. This is specifically for the earth swallow home. It’s the cheapest, fastest, simplest, and easiest to build. In a lot of cases people can scavenge. For instance, many big cities, like Kansas City have a bulky item pickup day, where people put things out that they don’t want anymore. You can get bathtubs, toilets, doors, windows, and even a kitchen sink. Check construction dumpsters. There is material everywhere that is being thrown away. MOTHER EARTH HEAT GRABBERS Other things could factor in. Old issues of Mother Earth News, the various magazines, Countryside, Backwoods Home, Back home Magazine deal with things like sun grabbers or heat grabbers. A passive solar system where you have a rippling in a framework painted black, it excites the air, glass plate over it of course. So it sucks air cold in from the bottom and pumps it out the top. If a person wanted, that could be done very inexpensively. This is the idea of having other types of heating. Basically this would cover the needs with the solarium on the house. In this area that we’re looking at there’s plenty of wood so heating is not going to be a problem, and as I said before, cooling, I don’t foresee being that big of a problem. MOTIVATION MUST BE SPIRITUAL

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Now we need to just touch base back on the philosophical side of this, the hows and the whys a little bit. What is the motivating factor, which is going to make this work? It will work utilizing those people for whom the desire to come out of Babylon is greater than their love of the world. It will work if you who are listening right now- if your desire to come out of Babylon is greater than your love of the world. If you love the world, the city, system, money and jobs; if you love that greater than you love your Lord and greater than you love obedience to the scripture and the law; if you love Babylon more than Jesus Christ, and your heavenly Father, then no it’s not going to work for you. But, if you do indeed love them, and Jesus said if you love me you will obey my commandments, if you love Him, then this will work for you, but it means making decisions and getting out of the city as soon as possible. We must get rid of the entanglements and encumberments, “the weight, which so easily besets us” which is holding us there. CUT YOUR LOSSES/ BURN YOUR BRIDGES For our entire married life, as much as possible I never worked a “real job” we tried to be self-employed. We did not store up any 401K or IRA, or anything like that. We have lived without insurance since my very first child was born; we have not had any medical insurance. We have not owned a house except for a very, very brief period of time. We were actually forced into a situation, the thing we found was a mobile home and we bought it but, that didn’t last very long, that was before our first child was born so that was 20 years ago. We did that for a reason. Do you own the house or does the house own you? You have to repair it, you’re committed to it, you’re worried about it, there’s a lot more concern there and I’m not saying that this is right for everybody but if you combine that with a good job, a 53 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

professional job, it gets to the point where you have too much to walk away from. For 20 years and better we intended to walk away and when the time came, we did, we burned our bridges and cut our losses. At that point in time we left a considerable amount of stuff behind and Oh well, life goes on. SUMMARY- IN A NUTSHELL I need to get back to the overall plan, the idea. Let’s say we get one home built like this and I call around and I find a family that really would like to get out of the city and like to get back onto the land and let’s say someone who’s going to plug right into the system and be able to help me, maybe someone in construction or who is an organizer, or someone who will go out and promote the idea or raise funds by meeting churches and farmers and just explain that we will build you a garage farmer John if you will give us 10 acres of land that you will set aside for this program and we’ll try to get people in here that you like, that you appreciate, and that can work for you, so you’ll have a workforce. So it works both ways, it would help the farmer or the church or whoever owns that land. There are churches or communities around that have more than 1,000 acres. I know that there is at least two. There’s a possibility of helping them build and increase. I’m not asking them to bring in riff raff or people who are not of their kind. They would build homes on property that they have; let’s say they have 1,500 acres. If they set aside 150 acres that’s 15 families and they would have the ability with the manpower that they have to build homes and bring in 15 more families. So that’s a very feasible, very workable thing, So now I bring in somebody that can help, so now they have 6 months to a year or so to live in that home until they help me or help the construction company arm of this program to build 2 more homes, then they help get their home 54 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

built. So now they know how to do this, the man or his sons have built 3 homes, their own and 2 more. Now they're free to go ahead and move into their home and that first home is freed up. But, now we have 4 homes where we initially had one. But, let’s say that we can just geometrically, progressively double. You have one home, you bring in a family, they build themselves a home, now you have two homes, you bring another family into that first home and they build their home and the first family helps build so a geometric progression of building these homes occurs. Now my belief is that we have at the very outside three years. I think toward the end of that time we’re going to see a breakdown of transportation and communication. We’ll be hoping that we can ride a horse or a donkey. At the end of that time people are going to be on foot also, but let’s try to get as much of that done beforehand as possible. I’m looking at 3 years on the outside and I’m looking at an area of about 180 mile radius around Springfield as a safe haven or a refuge, based on George Washington’s vision of people being driven to the interior of the country, and the Corey Ten Boom/Nora Lam vision of the circular area with a wall of fire around it. It’s not a huge area of the country. But, it’s rich enough to support many, many people. 10 percent of that landmass equates to 300,000 homes in 10acre increments. So it’s plenty to do what needs to be done in the amount of time that we have to do it, but it’s going to take a lot of work, bringing people in to the idea of the system to help out. There are a lot of people out there I know for a fact who want to get out of the system, the city, the trap, the rut, the rat race of Babylon, Rome and Egypt. We’re only one of probably 1,000 companies that sprang up during the Y2K thing and every one of 55 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

our customers were saying the same thing, that they’d love to get out of the city but didn’t know how. They were wonderful people; I had conversations that lasted an hour, 2 hours with some of these people, so we know there are people out there with a desire to do this, so it’s a matter of contacting people like this, and beginning this system. We need to build, starting with one, then build two, build four and bring in people to help them extricate themselves from the clutches of the system and the trap that they are in. NOW DOWN TO BRASS TACKS It should be apparent by now that this plan can work if we will work it together. During the Mormon trek west, Brigham Young proved to be an inventive genius, capable of “thinking outside the box.” He helped many of the poorer families by designing carts with which they could walk the 1300 miles at very little expense; they needed to purchase no wagon or oxen. We had best, as a people, learn very quickly, to think outside of our box, or we will suffer immeasurably because of it. I see thousands of believers duplicating the Mormon saga, however without the benefit of a handcart, help from supposed brethren, farming or house buildings skills or equipment. We need to pull some pages out of history and out of other organization’s practices. The Amish method of collecting monies for land purchase is one, which I believe we must begin immediately. WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW 56 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

If we will put together a coalition of people who are already where they believe they are to be, and together with those who are still in the cites, begin a tithe and offering system of collecting money for land, supplies and housing purchases, we could begin this plan. IF WE CONTINUE TO WORK ALONE, WE HAVE ALMOST NO CHANCE OF SUCCESS. IF WE POOL OUR KNOWLEDGE, OUR RESOURCES, OUR TALENTS, OUR SKILLS, OUR TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT, OUR MONEY, AND OUR VERY LIVES, WE HAVE ALMOST NO CHANCE OF FAILURE. In the book of Acts, people sold their land, and gave the money to trustworthy leaders, the apostles. This was to help the ministry to the sudden massive influx of believers to the faith. At this point in time, I believe the opposite needs to happen; those who are of the believing remnant, need to sell out their city holdings, and buy land in the country. Why? Judgment is at hand, and we are told to “step back into the cleft of the rock and wait for the indignation of the LORD to pass by.” A lion is coming down the path. We would be wise to get out of the way. What is the number one rule of survival? GET OUT OF THE CITIES!!! What is the number two rule of survival? GET OUT OF THE CITIES!!! And now, class, what is the number three rule of survival? REMEMBER, THERE IS GOING TO BE A TEST!!! GET OUT OF THE CITIES!!! Remember Ezekiel 7:15-16 “The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. BUT THEY THAT ESCAPE OF THEM SHALL ESCAPE, AND SHALL BE ON THE MOUNTAINS LIKE DOVES OF THE VALLEYS...” In cities, with no sewage control, power, or trash 57 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

pickup, disease and pest(rats, possums, mice, snakes, wild dog packs, etc)-ilence will run rampant. (In case you think that is not serious, consider that birth to breeding age for a rat is 2 to 3 weeks. Gestation is 2 to 3 weeks. A litter is 7 to 14 young who will be able to breed in, guess what? 2 to 3 weeks!!! And when can momma rat have her next litter? You guessed it; 2 to 3 weeks. If you are just outside the city, there will be open warfare in the fight for food, shelter, and perceived wealth, and killing will be common. Where should we be? “On the mountains.” WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD: WILL YOU ACT NOW, OR SIT LISTLESSLY WAITING FOR THE COMING DESTRUCTION? Too many believers are described by the following parody of Onward Christian Soldiers; if you are still one of them, get off the fence!!! You have talent; use it!!! You have wealth; spend it!!! You have land; make it productive!!! You have tools and equipment; build homes and greenhouses!!! You have farming experience; grow food!!! Those who bury their talents will be called “wicked and unfaithful servants.” Be one of those to whom it will be said, “welcome good and faithful servant.” BACKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS 1. Backward Christian soldiers, Fleeing from the fight, With the cross of Jesus, Nearly out of sight. Christ our rightful master 58 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

Stands against the foe Onward into battle, we seem afraid to go. Chorus: Backward Christian soldiers, Fleeing from the fight, With the cross of Jesus, Nearly out of sight. 2. Like a mighty tortoise Moves the church of God. Brothers we are treading, Where we've often trod. We are much divided, Many bodies we, Having different doctrines, but Not much charity. 3. Crowns and thrones may perish, Kingdoms rise and wane, But the cross of Jesus Hidden does remain. Gates of hell should never 'gainst the Church prevail, We have Christ's own promise, but we think that it might fail. 4. Sit here then ye people, Join our sleeping throng. Blend with ours, your voices in a feeble song. Blessings, ease and comfort Ask from Christ the King, But with our modern thinking, 59 OF BABYLON

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We won't do a thing. -George Verwer I will conclude by extending an invitation and plea for help in this endeavor. Anyone willing to help at any level would be greatly welcomed. Send this to a friend, or a list. Give it to people at your church group. Let me know if you would be able to do any of the needed tasks. We need people who are in a good place for others to land. We need money to buy land, so families have a place to rebuild their lives. We need people to handle the real estate searches and purchases. We need construction thrift store yards, and tools and equipment to build with. The list goes on and on. Ezra and Nehemiah worked well together. I remember David Barton of WallBuilders Ministry tell how God did not let him begin his ministry until he had found his Ezra. Ezra was the scholar, the prophet, the visionary, the strategist, and the prayer warrior. Nehemiah was the governor, the general, the “tirshatha,” the tactician, and the wallbuilder. As near as I can tell, I am an Ezra, and I have yet to find my Nehemiah. The Lord gave me this idea. I believe it will work. I know it will work. I need a get-it-done person to ramrod the operation. Thank you for your time and patience in reading what I have set down in so few words. * FOR DONATIONS, TITHES, OFFERINGS, OFFERS OF HELP, AND MOST ESPECIALLY INTERCESSORY PRAYER, PLEASE CONTACT: dmnds2001@yahoo.com 60 OF BABYLON HOW TO GET OUT

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ADDENDUM A Hopi Elder Speaks You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this IS the Hour. And there are things to be considered… Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your Truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader. Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, "This could be a good time!" There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our 62 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON

spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word -- struggle -- from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we've been waiting for.